Yesterday, the news that #China PBOC sold its largest amount of US Treasury reserves ever was not a shock. It was expected to happen sooner or later considering the state of the relationship between the two countries lately. Nevertheless, it was big news. At this point, I started to dig…
Category:Inflation
U.S. INVESTORS ARE THE DANCING PALLBEARES (AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IS THE ONE IN THE COFFIN)
The past 24 hours have been an absolute display of ridicule that the human mind could not contemplate a few years ago, but the Quantitative Easing fairy dust apparently makes every dream come true. I believe this CNBC article is the best example of incoherence between markets and reality: “CPI…
THIS LAST BURST OF QUANTITATIVE EASING WILL ACCELERATE THE OVERALL MONETARY IMPLOSION ALREADY UNFOLDING
Yes, quantitative easing is what just happened under everyone’s nose. The #JPY interventions of this past week effectively injected about 100 billion #USD into the global financial system that previously was not circulating. Why? Because #Japan MOF selling reserves to fetch #USD that can then be sold in the market…
WHY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS VERY INFLATIONARY AND IF THE FED DOES NOT HIKE RATES NOW INFLATION WILL BE HOT RIGHT BEFORE THE US ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER
Despite the #BOJ panic intervention as soon as the #JPY broke 160 against the #USD, and a US Treasury QRA (Quarterly Refinancing Announcement) that has been disclosed for an amount higher than expected, the longer end part of the US government bonds yield curve did not bother to move that…
EXPLAINING AND SIMPLIFYING THE JPY (COUNTERINTUITIVE) “DOOM LOOP”
Last week, I ventured a bit too deeply into the plumbing of the global financial system with the article “THE JPY (COUNTERINTUITIVE) DOOM LOOP – THE MORE JPY LOSES VALUE, THE MORE LEVERAGE IS FORCED TO COME OFFLINE, THE MORE THE JPY LOSES VALUE” and I apologize to all those…
STOP DREAMING – THE US ECONOMY HAS BEEN IN A RECESSION SINCE Q2 2021!
Every time I look at a new release of public, politically, seasonally adjusted data, I struggle not to smile (often, not to laugh lately). Things must be so bad this time that 7 months away from US elections, despite adjustments beyond the limits of human creativity, we’re getting this type…
THE JPY (COUNTERINTUITIVE) DOOM LOOP – THE MORE JPY LOSES VALUE, THE MORE LEVERAGE IS FORCED TO COME OFFLINE, THE MORE THE JPY LOSES VALUE
Almost 9 months ago now in the post “$JPY CARRY TRADE – THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL TICKING TIME BOMB OF ALL?“, I tried to explain how, in the current market conditions where the shortage of quality collateral assets is becoming incredibly scarce, a depreciating #JPY would have put the ginormous and…
AFTER LOSING THEIR GRIP ON GOLD, ARE THE FED AND THE US GOVERNMENT ABOUT TO LOSE THEIR GRIP ON OIL PRICES TOO?
Was anyone surprised to see #FED chairman Jerome Burns walking on stage today and saying out loud all those buzzwords that for a while have been pretty effective in feeding investors’ euphoria? I wasn’t, after all, it was already pretty clear after the last #FOMC that the real fed mandate…
AFTER #BITCOIN DID IT, NOW #GOLD IS SOUNDING THE ALARM
What are the differences between #Bitcoin and #Gold? If you put aside any personal views and stick with their pure characteristics, the two are not truly different from a monetary perspective: 1 – Both have limited supply, but at the same time, they can be divided into very minuscule units….
A LESSON FROM #CHINA’S MIDDLE CLASS: PAY YOUR DEBTS UNTIL YOU CAN AFFORD TO DO SO. THE ALTERNATIVE? DEBT SLAVERY
There are times when I believe that if there wasn’t a massive cultural and language barrier between #China and the major Western countries, in particular with the #US (while #Germany would love to deal more with #China commercially if they still had the option to do so), both parts of…